RE-PENSANDO LA COLONIALIDAD Y DECOLONIALIDAD EN EL ESPACIO DE LA EDUCACIÓN NO FORMAL DESDE LA INTERCULTURALIDAD CRÍTICA EN SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, MÉXICO.

RE-THINKING COLONIALITY AND DECONALIALITY FROM A CRITICAL INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE: THE CASE OF A NON-FORMAL EDUCATION SPACE IN SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, MEXICO.

EDUCATION; HISTORY of Chiapas, Mexico; EDUCATION & society; PATRIARCHY; SOCIAL marginality; HISTORY

Los espacios de educación no formal en Chiapas proliferaron en su mayoría después del movimiento zapatista de 1994, y algunas de sus actividades han sido cuestionadas por presentar contradicciones en su lucha contra la exclusión social. En este artículo, con una actitud reflexiva y crítica, profundizamos desde un espacio de educación no formal entre lo que se promueve como transformación social del problema de la exclusión y la contradicción sutil en determinados discursos y acciones. Retomamos la interculturalidad crítica para re-pensar el espacio, las relaciones y la práctica socioeducativa que se dan en Amalgama, AC, que, con un nombre ficticio, representa un espacio de educación no formal en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México. Por un lado, visibilizamos elementos de la estructura colonial-capitalista-patriarcal, concretamente de la colonialidad, que aparecen en el espacio, las relaciones y la práctica socioeducativa de esa asociación y, por otro, recuperamos algunas subjetividades de las personas-sujetos educadoras que resignifican estos espacios, relaciones y prácticas para, así, reflexionar sobre transformaciones sociales potenciadas desde la pedagogía decolonial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Chiapas, a Mexican southern state, non-formal education spaces have increased rapidly after "Zapatista Movement" in 1994. Nevertheless, recently some scholars have questioned certain activities carried out in these spaces because they find contradictions in the struggle against social exclusion. In this research paper, we analyzed with a reflexive point of view and with a critical approach the results obtained in a study performed in one of these spaces of non-formal education in which social transformation is promoted as an answer for the social exclusion problem. Here, we pointed out the delicate line that exists between actions and discourses in these non-formal education spaces. To reach this goal, we worked with a critical intercultural perspective and thus, we carried out an exercise to re-thinking space, relationships and social-educative practices in Amalgama, A. C. (fictional name), a non-formal education space located in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. As a result, we found out, on one hand that in the space, in the relationships and in the social-educative practice of Amalgama, A.C. there are elements of the colonialcapitalist-patriarchal structure, and such elements are closer to the coloniality than we expected at the beginning. On the other hand, this exercise allowed us to recover the perceptions of the educators to re-signifying this space, relationships and social-educative practice to eventually make social transformations encouraged them since the decolonial pedagogical approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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